Disciple of Deceit Banishing Combo

Pauper EDH* Infinite Combo UB (Dimir)

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Instant (20)

• 1x Banishing Knack
• 1x Coffin Purge
• 1x Confound
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Exclude
• 1x Eyeblight's Ending
• 1x Faerie Trickery
• 1x Intervene
• 1x Just the Wind
• 1x Keep Safe
• 1x Mystical Teachings
• 1x Negate
• 1x Obsessive Search
• 1x Psychic Strike
• 1x Retraction Helix
• 1x Scatter Arc
• 1x Shadow Rift
• 1x Soul Manipulation
• 1x Spell Shrivel
• 1x Turn Aside

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Call to the Netherworld
• 1x Cannibalize
• 1x Crippling Fatigue
• 1x Deep Analysis
• 1x Fortuitous Find
• 1x Ichor Slick
• 1x Merchant Scroll
• 1x Morgue Theft
• 1x Murderous Compulsion
• 1x Oblivion Strike
• 1x Silent Departure

Land (37)

• 1x Barren Moor
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dimir Guildgate
• 1x Dismal Backwater
• 1x Esper Panorama
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 1x Haunted Fengraf
• 1x Holdout Settlement
• 12x Island
• 1x Lonely Sandbar
• 1x Seat of the Synod
• 1x Survivors' Encampment
• 9x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Vault of Whispers

Artifact (12)

• 1x Accorder's Shield
• 1x Bone Saw
• 1x Cathar's Shield
• 1x Golem Foundry
• 1x Herbal Poultice
• 1x Leonin Bola
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Spidersilk Net
• 1x Tormod's Crypt
• 1x Viridian Longbow
• 1x Welding Jar
• 1x Whispersilk Cloak

Commander (1)

Creature (14)

• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Battered Golem
• 1x Cabal Paladin
• 1x Elgaud Shieldmate
• 1x Elusive Spellfist
• 1x Etherium Sculptor
• 1x Glaze Fiend
• 1x Grave Scrabbler
• 1x Mirran Spy
• 1x Night Market Lookout
• 1x Scribe of the Mindful
• 1x Trinket Mage
• 1x Wingcrafter
• 1x Zephyr Scribe

Enchantment (5)

• 1x Freed from the Real
• 1x Hermetic Study
• 1x Narcolepsy
• 1x Psionic Gift
• 1x Sleeper's Guile

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Jeskai Windscout
• 1x Ornithopter
• 1x Phyrexian Walker
• 1x Servant of Tymaret
• 1x Shield Sphere
• 1x Sky Scourer

Land (3)

• 1x Polluted Mire
• 1x Remote Isle
• 1x Submerged Boneyard

Instant (1)

• 1x Circular Logic

Artifact (2)

• 1x Expedition Map
• 1x Tooth of Chiss-Goria

Sorcery (1)

• 1x Temporal Fissure

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The centerpiece of this deck is a combo using Banishing Knack or Retraction Helix and a creature that can untap itself to replay a 0-cost artifact over and over while an ability triggered by casting the artifact wins us the game. The reason I chose this combo to use is because all the pieces have a relatively low CMC and there are A LOT of alternatives for everything but Banishing Knack or Retraction Helix. Our commander's whole purpose is to tutor for the combo pieces.

The Artifacts: We have limited ourselves to non-creatures for our 0-cost artifacts so that all of our artifacts work for all of our triggered abilities that win us the game. These 0-drops include Bone Saw, Accorder's Shield, Cathar's Shield, Herbal Poultice, Lotus Petal, Spidersilk Net, and Tormod's Crypt. We have included a ton of these because this is the one combo piece that our commander can't tutor for. On average, you should see one of these by turn 5. Trinket Mage can also tutor for these, though, allowing our commander to indirectly turn any 3-CMC card into a tutor for a 0-drop. Etherium Sculpter also turns a few 1-drop artifacts into a 0-drop you can use with the combo.

The Untappers: These need to untap themselves every time you cast an artifact or one enters the battlefield. These include Battered Golem, Mirran Spy, and Zephyr Scribe. Unfortunately, all of these are at 3-CMC, so we have plenty of 3-CMC cards to discard so our commander can tutor for our untappers.

The Triggers: These win us the game. Cabal Paladin or one of the ping equipment and auras like Viridian Longbow combined with a second untapper gives you infinite damage dealt to your opponents. Night Market Lookout with Mirran Spy as your untapper also allows for infinite drain. Glaze Fiend and Elusive Spellfist both become large and evasive so they can take out one opponent. All these occupy the 1, 2, and 4-CMC catagories, allowing you to get a wincon by discarding a huge variety of cards.

The rest of the deck has some recursion to get back our untappers and triggers, as well as some spell recursion to get back Banishing Knack and Retraction Helix, should we lose them. There's also a few utility cards with flashback so you can get some use after them after being discarded for a tutor. There's several ways such as Hermetic Study, Survivors' Encampment, and Whispersilk Cloak that allow us to tap or attack with Disciple of Deceit so it can untap and tutor.

Date added	5 years
Last updated	3 years
Legality	This deck is Pauper EDH legal.
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.08
Tokens	Golem 3/3 C
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